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Obituaries & funerals, 1889

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Death of Major O'gorman

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 6

UNITED IRELAND, November 29, Bays :-The palmy days of the Home Rule movement are recalled by the sad announcement that Major Purcell O'Gorman is no more. His burly…

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Death of Mr. Thomas Baillie

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 93

Mr. Thomas Baillie, of Toorak, died on Monday at Queenscliff from the effects of an apoplectic attack. He arrived iu Tasmania in 1840, with his brother, Six James Baillie. He Boon after come to Victoria…

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Sadden Death of Mr. John Halfey

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 93

About half-last 10 a.m. on the 4th inst, Mr. John Halfey, J.P., one of the proprietors of the Evening Herald, died suddenly in the Herald Office, Melbourne. He was with ono of his younger sons in his…

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Death of Gavazzi. London, January 11

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 6

The death is announced of Alessandro Gavazzi, the well-known Italian lecture against the Papacy. [Alessandro Gavazzi was born at Bologna…

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South Australian News. Death of an Old Colonist

Evening News · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Friday.-Mr. A. J. Solomon died on Thursday afternoon, at the age of 63. Deceased was a colonist of 40 years' standing. He came to South Australia in 1849, and thence wert to the…

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The Death Ship. a Strange Story; an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. [All Rights Reserved.]

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 10

"We are on short allowance," said the captain. "Our stock has run low. It will be a hardship if we should come to want tobacco."…

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The Death Ship. a Strange Story: an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoferey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. [All Rights Reserved.] CHAPTER XVII--Continued

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1889 · page 3

She answered: "In their bold they have a great quantity of silks and materials for making gowns for women. This jacket," she said, meaning that which she was wearing, "is…

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Death of a Cricketer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Monday,--Cropper, tho cricketer,is dead…

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Death of Mrs. Bonstead

The Australian Star · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.--Mrs. Bonstead w[?] for so many years assisted' travellers belated in the snow on the A[?]ps at the Hospice, Mount St. Bernard, is dead. She…

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Death of a Sleep-walker

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 3

The death of Thomas Shannon, an engine-driver, lately living in Little Riley-street, was made the subject of a magisterial inquiry yesterday morning by Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., at…

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Death of a Waterloo Veteran

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 2

On Monday one of the very few surviving heroes of Watsrloo, and one of the celebrities of the George-street Asylum, Parramatta, died in that institution at the ago of 103. In his youth…

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Coroners' Inquests. Sad Death of a Somnambulist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 5

Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry at the Coroner's Court, yesterday, concerning the death of an engine-driver named Thomas Shannon, aged 34 years, who died at the hospital on the previous…

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The Death Ship a Strange Story an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. [All Rights Reserved] Chapter Xx.--imogene Says She Will Trust Me

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1889 · page 3

A half hour passed, and during that time I had sufficiently recovered from the distressful croak of the parrot to wonder, as any sailor would, how the ship was navigated ; for I could…

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Death of an English Cricketer

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 8

A cable advises of the death of W. Cropper, the well-known Derbyshire professional cricketer. W. Cropper was born at Bremington on December 27, 1863. He was a very useful all-round cricketer…

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Death of Mr. Francis Henty. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 8

Mr. Francis Henty expired at his residence at Kew last night, aged 73 years. He was the survivor of a family of brothers who were the first settlers at Port Phillip, he being the youngest son…

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The Death Ship. a Strange Story; an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. Chapter Xxi. -- Continued

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1889 · page 3

On this he called Prine to bring the pictures. If ever I had doubted this ship was the veritable Flying Dutchman, the portraits would have settled my misgivings once and for all…

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Obituary

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1889 · page 7

THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND.-The recent sadden death of the Duchess of Sutherland removes from the philanthropic section of society one of its leaders. Although a woman of great…

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Australian. Victoria. Death of a Centenarian

The Australian Star · Friday 18 January 1889 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.-- Thomas O'Connell, a wood carter, has died at Sandhurst, aged 102 years. He leaves a widow aged 105,…

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German Annexation Probable. Death of Lieutenant Spengler

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 January 1889 · page 5

APIA, January 7.--Since the severe engagement at Fagali between the German sailors and the rebels there has been no fighting. On account of the bombardment of Laulii and…

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The Death Ship. a Strange Story ; an Account of a Cruise in the Flying Dutchman, Collected From the Papers of the Late Mr. Geoffrey Fenton, of Poplar, Master Mariner. [All Rights Reserved.] CHAPTER XXI.--Continued

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 January 1889 · page 3

I should speedily grow tedious were I to be minute in my description of what I saw, yet I must venture a short way in this direction. In one box there were fitted four trays, each tray…

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